March 2018
14 links saved this month.
medium.com
Walks through the pieces of Amazon Elastic Container Service — task definitions, tasks, services, clusters and container instances — and how they fit together.
techblog.bozho.net
Developer-facing checklist of what GDPR asks of an application — erasure and export of personal data, consent tracking, encryption, pseudonymisation and audit logs.
gaffer.readthedocs.io
Documentation for Gaffer, a Python tool that launches, supervises and controls applications and jobs across machines through an HTTP API.
knexjs.org
Knex.js, a SQL query builder for Node.js and the browser, supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite and Oracle with callback, promise and stream interfaces.
htdp.org
Full text of the HtDP textbook, which teaches systematic program design through a step-by-step design recipe, using Racket.
github.com
Archived command-line tool that declaratively created, updated and destroyed Kubernetes clusters on AWS via CloudFormation; end-of-life since September 2020.
importlib-resources.readthedocs.io
Documentation for importlib_resources, the Python library for reading data files bundled inside packages, meant to replace pkg_resources.
metabase.com
Open-source business intelligence tool that lets people query databases, build dashboards and explore data through a visual query builder rather than SQL.
arkwright.github.io
Account of scaling a React server-side rendering service on fixed hardware — round-robin load balancing, a client-side rendering fallback under load, and the risks of component caching.
peterbe.com
Benchmarks several ways to remove duplicates from a Python list, and finds list(dict.fromkeys(seq)) fastest when insertion order must be preserved.
camil.org
Step-by-step guide to deploying a highly available Kubernetes cluster on AWS with kube-aws, including the resulting architecture and optional security add-ons such as Dex.
wired.com
What the GDPR requires once it takes effect in May 2018 — informed consent, access, correction and deletion rights — and how it is already changing how large platforms handle data.
bitsofco.de
Explains what CSS display: contents does — dropping an element's own box while its children stay in the layout — and where it helps with grid and flexbox markup.
github.com
Free, open-source admin dashboard template built on Bootstrap 4, with responsive pages and UI components for back-office interfaces.
